Installing XCache on Amazon EC2

We’ve been benchmarking Amazon EC2 server instances for some highly complicated PHP applications over the past week. During this time, we’ve discovered that XCache is perhaps the best opcode caching product for our purposes.

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Steps to Install XCache on Amazon EC-2

The following is what I used to setup XCache on a fairly empty EC2 instance. You may need to toggle some settings, like the version:

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Oh, Ubuntu, I believe, will use some different commands – we use “Amazon”‘s Linux (64 bit), which is I believe a Centos fork. Its basically Centos with some Amazon engineer updates and additions from what I can tell.